antemundane

American

[an-tee-muhn-deyn, -muhn-deyn] / ˌæn ti mʌnˈdeɪn, -ˈmʌn deɪn /

adjective

before the creation of the world.

Etymology

Origin of antemundane

First recorded in 1725–35; ante- + mundane

Example Sentences

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He was not satisfied to go back only to the historical origin of Christianity, but would found human virtue on the eternal antemundane will of God.

From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

The creation of God, the Church, as it is of an antemundane and heavenly nature, will also attain its true existence only in the Æon of the future, the Æon of the kingdom of Christ.

From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil

The night in all its fulness met her flatly on the threshold, like the very brink of an absolute void, or the antemundane Ginnung-Gap believed in by her Teuton forefathers.

From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas

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